The World Vegan Travel Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Sofie and Tony who founded and run an elephant sanctuary, in fact, the first-ever Elephant Sanctuary in Europe. Seb and I met Tony and Sofie way back in 2018 when we went to visit The Elephant Haven European Elephant Sanctuary in France. We had been in contact with Tony asking if our group might visit the sanct...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Verena Erhart. A native of Austria, Verena has worked as a tour guide for years, leading group trips in Europe (bus tours for teenagers and river cruises for seniors) and local tours in NYC. Previous to starting her own tour business, she worked in international affairs and holds a degree in communications, ant...

Send us Fan Mail If you are a regular listener you are going to realize that this episode is a little different! First of all it is not edited at all and there isn’t even music or show notes for this episode. So why? I really wanted to create a little 2022 travel reflections and 2023 travel intentions episode and to release it just before the new year so that hopefully you will be inspired for you...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: Today’s episode is a little bit different. Because today’s episode is cooking at you just before Christmas, a holiday that we happen to enjoy and celebrate in our little family and my friend Colleen and I thought we would record this Christmas-themed podcast and hopefully get you in a festive mood. We are talking about what many would call, the capit...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Sabrina Reimann who is a project leader from the Black Forest in Germany’s Alternative Wolf and Bear Park. I first met Sabrina a few years ago, when we took our first-ever group tours of vegans on a  trip to Paris and Alsace.  Seb discovered this place when he was doing the research for this trip. He reached ou...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Metali Deypurkaystha.  Vegan since 2012, Mitali Deypurkaystha, helps vegan and ethical experts, influencers and entrepreneurs put their mission, movement, and message on the map, so that together they can change the world, one book at a time.  She is a keynote speaker, owner of The Vegan Publisher, a book consu...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Nia Seney, a long-term vegan from Vancouver and the editor-in-chief of one of the newest and most exciting vegan magazines out there: The Global Vegan Magazine. Nia, a long-term resident in Vancouver is here today to chat about her city (and my closest city) Vancouver! We are huge fans of this city so listen alo...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Teagan Kane from Infinite Blue Dive Travel. Teagan was born in Pennsylvania, and he always dreamed of seeing the world, he ended up in another country teaching at an International school in South Korea. He began to travel a lot around Asia in his free time and then found SCUBA diving and later on Freediving bot...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes: In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Eunice Reyes from Rated V Food. An American from Portland is an epic vegan foodie and traveler and shares her experiences on her YouTube channel. Long-term listeners might have heard an episode I did with Eunice before which was on Armchair Travel during the height of the pandemic. Eunice is fantastic and I was...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes Maggie started VegOut in 2016 to show her veg-curious friends the delicious vegan options they could enjoy while dining out. Originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, she now resides in Los Angeles (and is perfectly happy never scraping ice off her windshield again). She graduated with a degree in creative advertising from Michigan State University (Go gre...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes I am so honored to be sharing a very special vegan travel experience that I just returned from. If you are on our newsletter list or have been catching our Instagram stories, you might be aware already, but I have just returned from South Korea! This might come as a bit of a surprise to you because not only have we never talked to you or our community...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Jared from Safety Wing. Safety Wing is a very interesting company who are looking to help nomadic people and remote teams to take care of themselves while they are traveling through affordable travel insurance for individuals and teams but also in the future create a social safety net when living overseas for lo...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Michael Dorfman an American who has been living in Mexico for 40 years with his wife and has raised his children there. Michael writes and speaks about the benefits of whole food plant-based nutrition and healthy lifestyle practices that help to prevent chronic disease and premature death. In 2019 he published hi...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes In today’s episode, we are talking to  Faik Bouhrik The Vegan Stay: The NEW Platform Connecting Vegans and Sanctuaries. Instagram showed me one of the first posts from The Vegan Stay. When I saw the post I knew that this was someone that I wanted to talk to.  I reached out to Faik to ask if he’d like to be on the podcast and he said that he did and he...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Lauren Z Ray. Lauren is a documentary and award-winning filmmaker & travel content video creator. She documents her travels on YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok. Lauren teaches people how to write theirs through reels on Instagram.  Her film ‘Welcome to Monterey’ (2020) is about a small town in Indiana and the...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for shownotes Today we have a fascinating episode for you and this is going to be the perfect one to listen to if you have ever been considering joining a Joyful Vegan Trip, especially to Italy as we will be talking with our Northern Italy travelers. They risked everything and joined us on our 2022 Joyful Vegan Trip from Milan, Lake Garda, The Dolomites, and Venice.  🌊...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Kinga Szabo. Kinga is a 35-year vegan veteran who has been tour guiding in various places around the world including her home country of Hungary and that is what we will be talking about today, her home country. Now, if you are someone who doesn’t know much about this country, you will want to listen and get a bi...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Alina. Alina has a vegan hospitality business based in Japan called Vegan Omotenashi. Alina Teodorescu is the first consultant in Japan professionally trained by vegan hospitality, a training company created by Meredith Marin a former podcast guest who talked with us about Aruba.   Alina has been living in japan sinc...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for shownotes Today’s episode of the @worldvegantravel podcast is COMPLETELY different! For those of you that notice what we do, we came back from Italy a few weeks ago and both trips were just simply amazing Colleen I thought we would have some fun and reflect on our Tuscany trip with some of our Tuscany guests Ana, Ritika, and Sherry!   We chat about all sorts of thin...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for shownotes I am so pleased to introduce you to Pelagia. Pelagia is a vegan lifestyle coach, a trained vegan Chef, recipe creator, and the Co-Founder of Greek Appetite , a blog about Greece & Veganism and most importantly for our podcast episode, she is Greek.  She offers private coaching to help vegan foodies create balanced vegan meals, and introduce variety to...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Ania from Living Veggie with Ania. Ania is a Polish cooking instructor and health coach based in Singapore for the last ten years. She specializes in Georgian and Persian cuisine and conducts cooking class parties all over the world. She is going to share Singapore with you all with the hope that you will consider stopping over in Singapore...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Kim Sujovolsky who is the co-founder of the platform Brownble. Kim is originally from Venezuela but now lives in Spain with her husband and pups. Kim has been vegan for more than 10 years and she is always trying to support anyone who is looking to go vegan or make vegan choices and she does that in many differen...

Send us Fan Mail Click here  for the shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Kayleigh Goodman from the Floop App. She is English and currently located in Mexico where she is working on her app. In today’s podcast, she will be sharing her story, how travel inspired the idea for the app in the first place, and as an entrepreneur and an avid traveler, she decided to live a more nomadic life...

Send us Fan Mail Click to see the shownotes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Jim Moore from The Bloody Vegans Podcast and Bloody Vegans Productions which means he helps people with their own podcasts and will share a rather radical idea about how you might like to start your own podcast while you travel. Now, I will say that when Jim suggested this idea to me, I couldn’t quite understand ho...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the shownotes In today’s episode, Tomi Makanjuola from the Nigerian Vegan. Tomi, who was born and raised in Nigeria, now living in the UK has been vegan for many years and she is doing some really cool things. Tomi is a blogger, content creator, published cookbook writer, cooking instructor, and chef all inspired by her Nigerian heritage. In this episode of the Worl...